Re: Haiti Benefit: Andy Irvine, Spook, Mumblin' Deaf Ro, The Hounds & Big Monster Lov
what about that couch you mentioned by the by??
what about that couch you mentioned by the by??
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That's a fantastic total Leagues - well done.
My mother loved the Spook set. My friend described them as "if the IT Crowd played trad music".
My mother loved the Spook set. My friend described them as "if the IT Crowd played trad music".
My mother loved the Spook set. My friend described them as "if the IT Crowd played trad music".
My mother loved the Spook set. My friend described them as "if the IT Crowd played trad music".
The Hounds were excellent, definitely going to check them out again. It was great to finally see Andy Irvine too after Unclealo pointed me at some of his stuff a while back. His voice hasn't changed a bit and amazing playing. What was the yoke other than the smaller bouzouki that he was playing? Like a guitar body but 4 paired strings? Going by his website it's another type of bouzouki maybe?
My Instruments
My instruments have been made for some years, by Stefan Sobell (www.sobellinstruments.com)in Northumberland in the North of England. I wanted a rounder, warmer sound and we came to the conclusion that a bigger body was the answer. Rather than have a very large tear drop shaped body, I opted for the guitar shape which is easier to hold. A pity in a way because people who do not know me think I'm playing a guitar.
Stefan also made me a mandolin/mandola. Never quite know what to call it. Its two frets longer than a mandolin. I used to play a Gibson mandola which had the same string length as Stefans. Classicly, a mandola should be tuned way down to CGDA but I always thought this stupid with a Gibson because it didn't have a big enough body, nor a long enough string length to cope with the hawser-like strings required. So I thought it logical--as it was two frets longer than a mandolin-- to tune it a tone lower, using mandolin strings. So I tune it FCGC (I nearly always have the top string tuned down a tone)
When baggage allowances permit, I also play a bass bouzouki, made for me by Davy Stuart in Christchurch, New Zealand. This is a large bodied bouzouki-shaped bouzouki with heavy strings. At present I have .056s on the 4th, 38s on the third, 26s on 2nd and unwound 16s on the top. I have been tuning it DAEA--a 4th down from the usual Irish bouzouki tuning of GDAD but recently found that it would go down to CGDG--a 5th lower. It sounds grrreat!
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